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COG

[kog, kawg]

noun

(not in technical use) a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material.

a cogwheel.

a person who plays a minor part in a large organization, activity, etc.: He's just a small cog in the financial department.

verb (used without object)

(of an electric motor) to move jerkily.

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verb (used with object)

to roll or hammer (an ingot) into a bloom or slab.

Idiom

slip a cog, to make a blunder; err: One of the clerks must have slipped a cog.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English cogge, probably < Scandinavian; compare Swedish, Norwegian kugg cog

Example Sentences

If necessary, try yoga, or cog therapy to keep the physiological responses at healthy levels.

The company man was content to be a cog in the machine, the modern worker must take pride in his talents.

Others ride a small cog railway to the summit or take the winding eight-mile road.

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If necessary, try yoga, or cog therapy to keep the physiological responses at healthy levels.

The company man was content to be a cog in the machine, the modern worker must take pride in his talents.

Others ride a small cog railway to the summit or take the winding eight-mile road.

One of the steepest cog railways and a breathtaking tram ride over the gorge are exciting and wonderful for anyone.

Poke it in the hole on the cog side of the hub, turn the screw inside a few revolutions, and the hub locks down.

M&S education is a small cog in a large complex system that needs freedom to work.

Tricky ascents are conquered by cable car, gondola, and cog train.

Once there, click on the black cog to the right at the top of their tweets and block them from the resulting pulldown menu.

You're a tiny cog in the capitalist machine that's destroying the planet-and your own soul.

Doing science is being a small cog in a giant wheel.

In fact, the i-Motion's drive cog slipped a couple of times when starting from a dead stop on steeper hills.

Italian engineers building the line finally solved the problem by fixing a rotating toothed cog to the underside of the.

Visitors can climb by taxi or cog railway to gain this unparalleled view of the city.

In his system mind is immaterial and body material, as stated, but his system is certainly not confined to the realm of cog psyc.

The manager of a competing colliery debunked the theory that a locomotive needed a cog to propel it while carrying heavy loads.

Even the humblest home machine can become a cog in a larger computational.

Vardi was painfully aware, the viola was considered merely a humble alto cog in the vast orchestral machine.

When this doesn't work, he presents himself as a small cog and puts all the blame on others, subordinates as well as superiors.

Too many people are only part of a tiny cog in a machine.

He can sometimes seem to be a cog in a large fashion wheel.

For instance, hit the little settings cog and you can drill down to choose which friends' photos you want to pull down.

Waddell declared while snapping picture after picture of this cog of urban infrastructure.

Whether you go by cog railway or private vehicle, the ascent is.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to manipulate or load (dice) unfairly.

verb (used without object)

to cheat, especially at dice.

Origin:
1525–35; origin uncertain

noun

Carpentry. (in a cogged joint) the tongue in one timber, fitting into a corresponding slot in another.

Mining. a cluster of timber supports for a roof. Compare chock (def. 4).

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

Carpentry. to join with a cog.

Origin:
1855–60; special use of cog¹; replacing cock in same sense, special use of cock¹ (in sense of projection); see coak

cognate.

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World English Dictionary

cog¹ (kɒɡ)

—n
1.	any of the teeth or projections on the rim of a gearwheel or sprocket
2.	a gearwheel, esp a small one
3.	a person or thing playing a small part in a large organization or process

—vb , cogs, cogging, cogged
4.	(tr) metallurgy to roll (cast-steel ingots) to convert them into blooms

[C13: of Scandinavian origin; compare Danish kogge, Swedish kugge, Norwegian kug]

cog² (kɒɡ)

—vb , cogs, cogging, cogged
	slang to cheat (in a game, esp dice), as by loading a dice

[C16: originally a dice-playing term, of unknown origin]

cog³ (kɒɡ)

—n
1.	a tenon that projects from the end of a timber beam for fitting into a mortise

—vb , cogs, cogging, cogged
2.	(tr) to join (pieces of wood) with cogs

[C19: of uncertain origin]

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Word Origin & History

cog

"tooth on a wheel," mid-13c., probably a borrowing from a Scandinavian language (cf. Norwegian kugg "cog").

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Idioms & Phrases

cog

In addition to the idiom beginning with cog, also see slip a cog.

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"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

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